Excerpt from Geological Features of the Transvaal: South Africa
Until the last few years the Transvaal was a land known to few but as a hunting ground, and as the habitation of a few discontented Boers who had migrated from the British colonies and found on these wide grassy plains a residence more suitable to their extraordinary love of isolation. Rumours of rich gold-fields north of the Vaal river reached the outer world from time to time as travellers and hunters went and came, until first the Lydenburg district, then that of Barberton, and lastly, the Witwatersrand attracted adventurers, resulting latterly in one of the greatest mining "booms" which the world has ever witnessed.
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